S ome animals naturally have extraordinarily long lifespans, like the Greenland shark or the bowhead whale. Others, however, ...

In the chimp world, there was the time before Jane Goodall and the time after. This is the reason we knew so little about the great ape before 1960, according to the woman who dedicated her life to ...

Although she described herself as shy and not a natural activist, after attending a conference and seeing footage of how chimpanzees are trained for the circus, she said she couldn't sleep. 'I went to ...

Human communication is a complex weave of words and gestures — a mix of vocal and visual signals. "People use vocal and visual communication in a very rich and combined way," says Joseph Mine, a ...

Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall spent decades of her life researching and working with primates, beginning her career in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa, in the early 1960s. She ...